Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today it’s Carol O’s turn to read “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Carol, Jennifer and Tom sing “Mary, did you know?” and Rev Helen reads “Ring Out the Wild Bells”. St Margaret’s Church Prestwich holds CCLI licences CCL … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 07
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today it’s “other” Tom’s turn, with “Walking in the Air”, Rev Sue reads “Why the chimes rang”, by Raymond MacDonald Alden, and Carol & Tom sing the advent carol “Lo, He comes with clouds descending”. St Margaret’s Church Prestwich … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 06
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today, in keeping with this year’s theme of angels, we hear about the annunciation, from the parish choir in “Gabriel’s Message”, Rev Sue reads “Annunciation” by Lucy Moore” and Tom, Carol and Jennifer sing “Deo Gracias” from Benjamin Britten’s … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 05
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today our friend Michael reads “angels”, a poem written especially for this Digital Advent Calendar by his brother Geoff Knaggs. Then it’s the Advent carol “Veni, Veni Emmanuel” sung by our parish choir, and “Noel: Christmas Eve 1913” by … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 04
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today it’s the anthem “Adam Lay Ybounden” sung by our parish choir, and the poem “High in the Heaven” by Charles Causley, read by Maureen. St Margaret’s Church Prestwich holds CCLI licences CCL 79250, MRL 775231 and 466111 for … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 03
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today it’s an anthem recorded a while ago by our parish choir, and a poem by Laura Gibson, read by Sue G. St Margaret’s Church Prestwich holds CCLI licences CCL 79250, MRL 775231 and 466111 for music streaming and … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 02
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two. Today it’s the ancient plainchant “Advent Prose” from Carol P and Tom, and “God’s Phone Number”, read by Carol O: St Margaret’s Church Prestwich holds CCLI licences CCL 79250, MRL 775231 and 466111 for music streaming and One Licence … More Digital Advent Calendar 2025 day 01
This article was written for the November 2022 issue of our parish magazine. Sarah Quartel is a Canadian composer and educator, known for her fresh and exciting approach to choral music, and I was first introduced to her work in August 2021. I was at the Sing for Pleasure summer school for choral conductors, where … More I Remember (Sarah Quartel)
I enjoy my visits across the Pennines to visit Rev Debby, and on my summer visit this year, she introduced me to a beautiful picture book called “The Lost Words”. It’s an over-sized picture book by Robert Macfarland and Jackie Morris, and was written as a response to the removal of everyday nature words from … More Lost Words Blessing – Jim Molynexy & Kate Howard
This article first appeared in the September 2025 issue of our parish magazine. Here it is for you again: Many readers will know that I attend Sing for Pleasure (SfP) conductor training events regularly, and it was as an Advanced student at the 2025 summer school that I was introduced to a set of utterly … More Gran Miracol d’Amore – Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590)
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